This is the final post in the ‘Revisiting Learning Design’ series of posts. I hope that they have at least prompted you to think about aspects of Learning Design and how they are applied to your teaching and learning programs. The final aspect of Learning Design is ‘Design the teaching and learning plan’. This is […]
Engagement could be described in two ways, compliance engagement and deep engagement. According to David Price (Learning Futures Engaging Students, 2010) deep engagement encompasses the following: • Cares not just about the outcome, but also the development of their learning • Takes responsibility for their learning • Brings discretionary energy to their learning task(s) • Can locate the value of […]
Designing assessment tasks that will allow students to address the Achievement Standards and content descriptors at an ‘A’ level is important. If we only ever produce tasks that allow for a satisfactory achievement and don’t address the deeper learning aspects of the curriculum we are doing a disservice to our students. Consideration must be given […]
As teachers we need to have a clear understanding of what quality learning for any particular task looks like. We then need to be able to communicate this with our students. Using the Australian Curriculum content descriptors, Achievement Standards, quality work samples are ways to help achieve this. Using rubrics with clearly thought out criteria […]
Here is the second poster in my ‘Revisiting Learning Design’ series of posts. Understanding what our students bring in terms of understandings, beliefs, misconceptions, prior knowledge etc is important. It gives us a foundation, a starting point for a topic and assists us with what direction we might take with that topic. Importantly we must […]
Here is the first poster in the ‘Revisiting Learning Design’ series of posts. Understanding what we are required to teach using the Australian Curriculum is important. What is more important is how we connect that with students lives and the real world. Also important is developing a ‘big idea’ along with essential questions that when […]
I thought I would take some time to revisit Learning Design. Our teaching lives are complex and time poor but it is important to stop sometimes and reflect back on things we have learnt and attempted to apply to our teaching practice. Learning Design is one of these things. We had the opportunity last year […]
Leading Learning Website DECD Learning Design What is Learning Design Learning Design in a professional learning community Using TfEL for Learning Design Learning Design at ASMS Learning Design exemplars Powerful teaching with doctor Julia Atkin An overview of Learning Design A series of posts by Nick 2012. Learning Design part 1, part 2, part 3, […]
In our staff meeting this week (week 1 term 3) we will be revisiting our formative assessment action plans from early term 2. What formative assessment strategies did we say we were trying to accomplish in our classrooms and have we had any success? If you don’t have your personal action plan at hand then […]